Country Risk Country risk (also known as political risk)

¦ Differences in host country political, legal and economic regimes may adversely impact firm profitability.

¦ Also, laws, regulations and indigenous factors e.g. property rights, intellectual-property protection, product liability, taxation policies, inflation, national debt, and unbalanced international trade, may encumber firm operations and performance.

¦ Government intervention: restricts market access; imposes bureaucratic procedures hindering business transactions; and limits the amount of earned income that firms may repatriate from foreign operations.

¦ Economic freedom differs among nations- Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland are known as having the highest levels of economic freedom, see:

(http://www.heritage.org).
below are some useful link that provide from the professor, plz used those

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https://www.ihs.com/products/country-risk-analyst.html
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/nato_countries.htm
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/united-kingdom.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3846.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/countries/allcountries.asp?view=region

http://www.atkearney.com/main.taf?p=5,4,1,116

http://www.businessmonitor.com/

http://www.eldis.org/country

http://www.euromonitor.com/

http://www.ft.com/cms/95d63dfa-257b-11dc-b338-000b5df10621.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/index.html

http://www.geohive.com/earth/

http://www.happyplanetindex.org/map.htm

http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_30/b3893138.htm

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=2443&lang=1

http://enr.construction.com/people/topLists/topIntlCont/topIntlCont_1-50.asp